Indy 500 drivers: Meet the starting grid for 2025 race, from pole winner Robert Shwartzman to Kyle Larson

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The Indianapolis 500 returns Memorial Day weekend, wherever a tract of 33 drivers volition vie for 200 laps astatine the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

This year, the radical of 33 drivers includes plentifulness of erstwhile Indy 500 victories, from Takuma Sato to defending back-to-back winner Josef Newgarden. Meanwhile, different notable names similar Robert Shwartzman and Pato O'Ward volition beryllium competing for their archetypal triumph astatine the event.

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Here's a look astatine the afloat 2025 Indy 500 field, including immoderate speedy facts astir each driver.

Indy 500 starting grid 2025

Rookie Robert Shwartzman won rod presumption for the 2025 Indy 500 with an mean velocity of 232.790 mph successful Sunday's "Fast Six." Joining him successful the archetypal 2 rows volition beryllium Takuma Sato, Pato O'Ward, Scott Dixon, Felix Rosenqvist and Alex Palou. 

MORE: Full results from 2025 Indy 500 qualifying

Below is the afloat starting grid for the Indianapolis 500.

Indy 500 drivers 2025

Here's what to cognize astir each of the drivers competing successful the 2025 Indy 500.

Robert Shwartzman

• Position: 1
• Car No.: 83
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 232.8 mph

Schwartzman is beryllium the archetypal rookie to assertion rod presumption successful the Indy 500 successful 43 years and conscionable the 2nd ever. The 25-year-old, who has conscionable 5 IndyCar races nether his belt, volition present question to marque immoderate past retired of the apical spot. Schwartzman's champion IndyCar decorativeness truthful acold has been 18th, but he's present primed to amended determination aft a astonishing show successful qualifying.

Takuma Sato

• Position: 2
• Car No.: 75
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 232.5 mph

Sato became the archetypal Japanese-born operator to triumph an IndyCar contention successful 2013 and was the archetypal Asian operator to triumph the Indy 500 successful 2017. He remains conscionable 1 of 20 drivers to triumph the contention aggregate times acknowledgment to his 2nd triumph successful 2020. The 48-year-old volition person beardown positioning for a imaginable 3rd Indy 500 triumph successful 2025, seeking to adhd to his six-win IndyCar career.

Pato O'Ward

• Position: 3
• Car No.: 5
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 232.1 mph

O'Ward has been connected the verge of an Indy 500 triumph twice, finishing successful 2nd successful some 2022 and 2024. He'll beryllium hoping 2025 is the twelvemonth helium breaks through, arsenic helium earned his champion starting presumption yet successful third. O'Ward has 7 vocation IndyCar victories and 27 logged podiums.

Scott Dixon

• Position: 4
• Car No.: 9
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 232.1 mph

Dixon is different IndyCar veteran, owning 57 vocation wins implicit 363 races. He's been seeking his archetypal Indy 500 triumph since 2008 for immoderate time, but did decorativeness 3rd successful the 2024 race. Starting successful 4th spot this year, Dixon volition person his highest Indy 500 presumption since earning rod presumption successful some 2021 and 2022.

Felix Rosenqvist

• Position: 5
• Car No.: 60
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 232.0 mph

Roseqvist is seeking to go the 3rd Swedish operator to triumph the Indy 500. The 33-year-old has 1 vocation IndyCar win, which came successful 2020, and his champion Indy 500 decorativeness was 4th successful 2022. 

Alex Palou

• Position: 6
• Car No.: 10
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 231.4 mph

Palou is simply a 15-time IndyCar victor who was the apical qualifier for the 2023 Indy 500. He finished 4th successful that race, and he'll present commencement wrong the top-six of the Indy 500 for the 5th clip successful six attempts. While Palou has yet to triumph the race, helium volition surely beryllium a menace to instrumentality down the checkered emblem astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

David Malukas

• Position: 7
• Car No.: 4
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.6 mph

Malukas did not vie successful the 2024 Indy 500 but has 2 erstwhile races to thin on. He'll beryllium starting successful his champion presumption yet aft earning spots No. 13 successful 2022 and No. 23 successful 2023, with his champion decorativeness being 16th successful his rookie race. Malukas has 2 logged podiums successful his 44-race career.

Christian Lundgaard

• Position: 8
• Car No.: 7
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.4 mph

Lundgaard is racing successful his 4th Indy 500, finishing successful the top-20 successful each of his erstwhile three. Eighth volition beryllium by acold his champion starting presumption yet, though. The 23-year-old's archetypal and lone IndyCar triumph came successful 2023.

Marcus Ericsson

• Position: 9
• Car No.: 28
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 231.0 mph

Ericsson had a pugnacious 2024 Indy 500, starting successful 32nd and finishing 33rd, aft winning the 2022 contention and finishing 2nd successful the 2023 race. But the 34-year-old is backmost for revenge this year, seeking his 5th vocation triumph and archetypal since 2023.

Scott McLaughlin

• Position: 10
• Car No.: 3
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 233.0 mph

McLaughlin had rod presumption astatine the 2024 Indy 500, finishing sixth. It was by acold the champion show implicit his 4 years competing successful the event. The 31-year-old New Zealand autochthonal has 7 vocation IndyCar victories.

Josef Newgarden

• Position: 11
• Car No.: 2
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 233.0 mph

Newgarden, the back-to-back champion of the Indy 500, is seeking a three-peat. He has 31 vocation wins implicit 215 IndyCar races, reaching a caller highest successful the Indy 500 successful caller years contempt ne'er winning rod position. Newgarden is racing successful his 14th Indy 500.

Will Power

• Position: 12
• Car No.: 12
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 232.1 mph

Power began past year's Indy 500 successful second, but finished successful 24th. He is 1 of the 33 drivers with a erstwhile Indy 500 triumph though, winning the contention backmost successful 2018. The Australian prima broke onto the circuit successful 2008 and has 8 seasons with astatine slightest 3 wins.

Conor Daly

• Position: 13
• Car No.: 76
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.7 mph

Over 115 vocation races, Daly has 2 podiums, with the astir caller being a third-place decorativeness astatine the 2024 Milwaukee Mile race. The 33-year-old has represented assorted teams arsenic a reserve operator implicit the years, racing successful the Indy 500 connected 11 erstwhile occasions. Daly has finished successful the top-10 successful 3 consecutive years.

Alexander Rossi

• Position: 14
• Car No.: 20
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.7 mph

Rossi won successful his first-ever Indy 500 quality backmost successful 2016, but hasn't been capable to reclaim the rubric since. However, Rossi does person 3 consecutive top-5 finishes successful the race, adjacent finishing 5th aft a 20th starting presumption backmost successful 2022. Rossi has finished beneath 25th astatine the Indy 500 successful conscionable 2 of his 9 appearances.

Kyffin Simpson

• Position: 15
• Car No.: 8
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 231.6 mph

Simpson volition again beryllium 1 of the youngest drivers successful the tract astatine 20 years old. The Cayman Islands autochthonal volition beryllium racing successful his 2nd Indy 500 aft finishing successful 21st past year. In his 2 years of IndyCar Series races, Simpson's champion decorativeness was 10th successful the 2025 Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Ed Carpenter

• Position: 16
• Car No.: 22
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.6 mph

The 44-year-old Carpenter is an IndyCar veteran, having competed successful the Indy 500 a full of 21 times. However, helium has yet to triumph the contention contempt earning rod presumption 3 times; Carpenter's champion decorativeness was successful 2nd backmost successful 2018. Carpenter founded Ed Carpenter Racing backmost successful 2012 and has 3 wins implicit 205 vocation races.

Santino Ferrucci

• Position: 17
• Car No.: 14
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.6 mph

Ferrucci has 77 vocation races nether his belt, but is inactive seeking his archetypal victory. He's competed successful the Indy 500 successful each twelvemonth since 2019, drastically improving connected his starting presumption a fewer antithetic times. In each six of those races, Ferrucci finished successful the top-10, including a champion third-place decorativeness successful 2023.

Devlin DeFrancesco

• Position: 18
• Car No.: 30
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 231.6 mph

DeFrancesco is backmost successful the Indy500 aft a twelvemonth away, arsenic helium competed successful the contention backmost successful 2022 and 2023, but not successful 2024. He has finished 20th and 13th successful his 2 attempts. The 25-year-old, who's from Toronto, is present connected a multi-year woody with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.

Sting Ray Robb

• Position: 19
• Car No.: 77
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.5 mph

Robb, a 23-year-old with arguably the champion sanction successful the Indy 500, has 34 races implicit his 2 years successful IndyCar frankincense far. As a rookie successful the 2023 Indy 500, helium finished 31st, and successful 2024, helium improved connected his No. 23 starting spot to decorativeness 16th. Robb hails from Boise, Idaho, and is inactive seeking his archetypal vocation podium.

Christian Rasmussen

• Position: 20
• Car No.: 21
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.4 mph

Rasmussen made his archetypal Indy 500 quality past year, notably opening the No. 24 spot and finishing 12th. The 24-year-old, representing Ed Carpenter Racing, volition beryllium competing successful his 15th vocation contention successful Indianapolis.

Kyle Larson

• Position: 21
• Car No.: 17
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.3 mph

Larson is erstwhile again attempting to propulsion disconnected the "Double Duty" by racing successful the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 successful the aforesaid day. Last year, a rainfall hold prevented him from completing the entirety of the challenge. The NASCAR prima won Rookie of the Year honors astatine past year's Indy 500, finishing successful 18th.

Louis Foster

• Position: 22
• Car No.: 45
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 231.1 mph

The 21-year-old Foster joined IndyCar for the archetypal clip successful 2025, representing Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The British operator antecedently won the 2024 Indy NXT rubric and the 2022 Indy Pro 2000 championship.

Callum Ilott

• Position: 23
• Car No.: 90
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 231.0 mph

Over 40 IndyCar races, Ilott has yet to log a podium, fto unsocial triumph a race. Over 3 Indy 500 races, he's finished 32nd, 12th and 11, improving each year. The 26-year-old volition present statesman successful 23rd arsenic helium makes his 4th quality successful the race.

Helio Castroneves

• Position: 24
• Car No.: 06
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 231.0 mph

Castroneves remains conscionable 1 of 4 drivers to triumph the Indy 500 connected 4 occasions, doing truthful successful 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021. The 50-year-old Brazilian prima has 25 full IndyCar wins successful his career, positive 84 logged podiums. Castroneves hasn't been successful the top-5 of the Indy 500 since his 2021 victory, but has much acquisition connected the way than astir drivers astatine the 2025 event.

Kyle Kirkwood

• Position: 25
• Car No.: 27
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 230.9 mph

Kirkwood has remained an up-and-coming IndyCar driver, having won 3 of his 51 vocation races. He logged his champion Indy 500 decorativeness past year, seventh place, aft starting astatine the No. 11 spot. The 26-year-old is presently racing for Andretti Global.

Nolan Siegel

• Position: 26
• Car No.: 6
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 230.6 mph

Siegel isn't wholly a newcomer to the Indy 500 astatine conscionable 20 years old, but helium didn't suffice for the 2024 lawsuit aft crashing and flipping successful his last qualifying attempt. Now, Siegel is seeking to rebound from that successful the No. 26 position, inactive aboriginal successful his IndyCar career.

Ryan Hunter-Reay 

• Position: 27
• Car No.: 23
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 230.4 mph

Hunter-Reay is different seasoned acceptable to vie successful the 2025 Indy 500. He's won the contention once, backmost successful 2014, retired of his 16 attempts. He's besides added successful 5 further top-10 finishes, and the 44-year-old has a full of 16 vocation wins. 

Jack Harvey

• Position: 28
• Car No.: 24
• Car make: Chevrolet
• Qualifying speed: 230.3 mph

Harvey had 1 twelvemonth distant from the Indy 500 successful 2024 aft making 7 consecutive appearances. He had conscionable 1 top-10 finish, which came successful 2020, but Harvey has besides improved connected his starting presumption successful each twelvemonth but his debut successful 2017. In his IndyCar career, Harvey has 1 logged podium successful 93 races.

Colton Herta 

• Position: 29
• Car No.: 26
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 230.2 mph

Herta is the lad of Bryan Herta, a two-time victor connected the IndyCar Series implicit 121 races from 1994 to 2003. Following successful his father's footsteps, Colton Herta has 9 wins implicit 100 IndyCar races, but he's inactive seeking his archetypal Indy 500 win. In six erstwhile races, his champion decorativeness was eighth backmost successful 2020.

Graham Rahal

• Position: 30
• Car No.: 15
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 229.9 mph

Rahal owns a apical of Indy 500 experience, competing successful the contention 17 erstwhile times and logging 4 top-10 finishes. In 2020, helium finished successful third, 1 of his 29 vocation podiums to spell with six victories. The 36-year-old won't commencement successful a favorable spot successful 2025, however, and hasn't been backmost wrong the top-10 since his 2020 run.  

Marco Andretti

• Position: 31
• Car No.: 98
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 229.7 mph

The grandson of Mario Andretti (who had 52 IndyCar wins, 12 Formula One wins and a NASCAR triumph during his historical career), Marco Andretti has 2 IndyCar victories of his own. However, helium has yet to assertion the Indy 500 rubric implicit 19 tries, adjacent winning rod presumption backmost successful 2020. With 5 top-5 finishes successful the contention to his name, the 38-year-old volition inactive beryllium 1 of the astir decorated contenders this year.

Marcus Armstrong

• Position: 32
• Car No.: 66
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 229.1 mph

Armstrong made his archetypal Indy 500 quality successful 2024, finishing successful 30th aft earning the No. 16 spot. Now representing Meyer Shank Racing, he'll person immoderate enactment to bash retired of the No. 32 position, but the 24-year-old New Zealand autochthonal does person 1 podium logged implicit his 29 IndyCar races.

Rinus Veekay

• Position: 33
• Car No.: 18
• Car make: Honda
• Qualifying speed: 226.9 mph

Veekay, inactive conscionable 24 years old, has already competed successful the Indy 500 5 times, earning starting positions successful the top-10 successful each of those races. This time, he'll person much of a challenge. Veekay, present representing Dale Coyne Racing, has 3 top-10 finishes successful Indianapolis, positive 1 vocation victory.